Facebook (sorry: Meta) AI: Check out our "AI" that lets you access all of humanity's knowledge.
Also Facebook AI: Be careful though, it just makes shit up.
This isn't even "they were so busy asking if they could" --- but rather they failed to spend 5 minutes asking if they could.
@emilymbender My first attempt to use it generated something that brilliantly mimicked a paper written by someone who had forgotten the assignment was due today and hadn’t read the reading material.
And as silly as that sounds, it highlights the core problem. It doesn’t know what it doesn’t know. So it will just plug garbage into the gaps that sounds real, but isn’t. And as a reader, you have no idea which parts are based on “facts” (aka unauthenticated or attributed stuff ingested somewhere unknown) and which are made up to sound right.
@emilymbender
That was a good reminder of how toxic my last job was. I was being encouraged to make decisions without enough info, for a group of people who had far more experience than I did. That ran very counter to my usual technique of asking lots of questions, finding the people with good ideas, and supporting them.
You just gave me a wake-up that I may have left there, but I’m still using that “I know what I’m talking about” style instead of couching questions and off-the-cuff theories as what they actually are. Ugh.
A gut punch that I needed. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
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